An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds.
PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor — powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model — deleted the company’s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24.
The deletion, according to Crane, should act as a warning to other companies racing to entrust AI agents with real-world tools.
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